Hipólito Ruiz López
Spanish botanist (1754-1816) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hipólito Ruiz López (August 8, 1754 in Belorado, Burgos, Spain – 1816 in Madrid), or Hipólito Ruiz, was a Spanish botanist known for researching the floras of Peru and Chile during an expedition under Carlos III from 1777 to 1788. During the reign of Carlos III, three major botanical expeditions were sent to the New World; Ruiz and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez were the botanists for the first of these expeditions, to Peru and Chile.
The standard author abbreviation Ruiz is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[1]